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Lot essay

The chasing on the lid and sides of the present snuff-box reflects the influence of Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier's engraved designs for snuff-boxes in the rocaille taste. Meissonnier's 1734 Livre d'Ornemens, published in Paris, influenced numerous goldsmiths on the Continent and in England throughout the Rococo period (K. Snowman, Eighteenth-Century Gold Boxes of Europe, Woodbridge, 1990, pp. 44, 45 and 137).

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